Earlier this month, the XFL postponed its season. It was a sound decision even if it had a month left. XFL was pretty much running for a cup of coffee. These things happen. Last week, we floated the idea of Alpha Entertainment bringing back ECW. Now let’s look at Alpha bringing back WCW. Is it a better choice? Let’s explore it.
The Angle: Alpha Entertainment Scoops Up WCW
The scenario is the same as before. Vince is pushed out of his role as the creative end-all-be-all of WWE. There he is with his own parent company, Alpha Entertainment. Let’s say he was able to get the rights to a company in WWE’s portfolio. Honestly, everything but WCW and NWA has a sliver of a chance to be scooped up in this scenario. Vince could restart Stampede or AWA and likely skedaddle with the rights.
However, we’re running with WCW here. WWE’s profits are below expectations, they start offloading cargo to keep investors from bailing. Vince swoops in, snags WCW and announces a relaunch either later this year or in January of 2021. If that’s too much, Vince steps down and is given the WCW rights if he doesn’t interfere in WWE’s creative direction.
The reality of the scenario isn’t that important. I’ve seen less realistic scenarios from folks’ WWE leagues.
Vince McMahon and Where The Big Boys Play
Yes, WCW 3.0 since the company was rebooted towards the end. Since WWE would be taking direction with Triple H and Stephanie heading it up, Vince would probably stay the course of his WWE booking. Larger than life heavyweights and smaller but very charismatic talent.
That part would be key. The heavyweights just have to look great and wrestle with a particular style. If they’re smaller they would need to bring some razzle-dazzle. Actually, they might even need to open that can of razzmatazz. What I don’t see is Vince digging into his bag of early 90s gimmicks. Hopefully, The Rock tossed it in the river with Austin’s Smoking Skull belt.
Patterson and Dunn would likely be brought along. Shane should be brought onto the creative team. You know so that someone is there to hopefully push for young, bright talent. Seriously, someone has to say “Let’s not just get all the familiar faces and big guys. Let’s do a mix.”
Basically, do the opposite of WCW in the 90s. Vince was there and saw what it did to WCW! He’d know better than to go that route. Unless he believes he can pull it off. I can’t see a guy who has kept a company afloat for almost 38 years just being reckless with hundreds of millions.
Yeah, I was wrong there. At any rate, I could see WCW doing alright now. There’s more wrestling on TV and fans always want more accessible wrestling because we like to have choices. Vince’s WCW doesn’t need to be different from WWE because it’s likely that it would be WWE in nature while WWE floats away from the Vince influence while still being sports entertainment.
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